Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:47:03 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, bowman wrote:

> To summarize a rambling, offline response, when I was actively
> programming for Windows, I preferred the djgpp tools.

That would probably not work well, due to all kind of nice features 
offered by DJGPP that break when you invoke DJGPP tools from a non-DJGPP 
program.  To say nothing about incompatibilities between DOS and Windows 
programs when you try using some of the advanced Windows features (like 
pipes, async subprocesses etc.).

> Using Cygwin adds
> a distinct *nix flavor that may not please people coming from a
> DOS/Windows background. 

IMHO, currently Cygwin tools have too many subtle bugs.

> Technically, I did have a problem with the Cygwin 'make' truncating long
> lines.

This is one of the incompatibilities I mentioned above.  It alone would 
preclude you from building any GNU package.